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| author | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2015-09-16 13:06:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2015-09-21 09:56:49 +0200 |
| commit | 1a9a507b2e3e90aa719c96b4c092e7fad7215f21 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b6a5f1a5783fb9f151d17b554c3f8117c52e08b /qapi | |
| parent | 39a181581650f4d50f4445bc6276d9716cece050 (diff) | |
qapi-introspect: Hide type names
To eliminate the temptation for clients to look up types by name
(which are not ABI), replace all type names by meaningless strings.
Reduces output of query-schema by 13 out of 85KiB.
As a debugging aid, provide option -u to suppress the hiding.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1442401589-24189-27-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | qapi/introspect.json | 12 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/qapi/introspect.json b/qapi/introspect.json index 9c8ad53d7a..cc50dc6bcb 100644 --- a/qapi/introspect.json +++ b/qapi/introspect.json @@ -75,17 +75,13 @@ # @SchemaInfo # # @name: the entity's name, inherited from @base. -# Entities defined in the QAPI schema have the name defined in -# the schema. Implicitly defined entities have generated -# names. See docs/qapi-code-gen.txt section "Client JSON -# Protocol introspection" for details. +# Commands and events have the name defined in the QAPI schema. +# Unlike command and event names, type names are not part of +# the wire ABI. Consequently, type names are meaningless +# strings here. # # All references to other SchemaInfo are by name. # -# Command and event names are part of the wire ABI, but type names are -# not. Therefore, looking up a type by "well-known" name is wrong. -# Look up the command or event, then follow the references. -# # @meta-type: the entity's meta type, inherited from @base. # # Additional members depend on the value of @meta-type. |